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However, defensive aggression does not always translate into defensive greatness. Against a poor offensive team you can average a high number of steals (overplaying passing lanes, e.g.) without "aggression". So, when you look at the steals, have an account of the FORCED STEALS ( you can read a very good analysis of Forced Steals at the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System Area ) and the opponent TO without defensive "participation".

About the 'Defensive Aggressiveness', you must look at the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System for the discussion about steals and non-steal forced turnovers. The eBA System learns us that good examples of non-steal forced turnovers include pressuring an offensive player into traveling, a double dribble, a bad pass, or drawing a charge.

So in the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis you receive a certain player as the is key to team's success in forcing turnovers being responsible for a certain number of forced turnovers: steals plus non-steal forced turnovers per 40/48 minutes. The individual and team's number and percentage of non-steal forced turnovers give you an excellent index of defensive aggressiveness.

By the way, there is nothing more satisfying for a coach than to see his players play basketball aggressively. Aggression here should not be governed by strong or raging emotions deep within the player, but by playing hard and playing smart.

In connection to that, here are some of the ways players can make use of so that they can be aggressive in their basketball game:

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1. Be confident2. Continue to exercise and work-out3. Develop mental toughness4. Always being ready and willing to learn new basketball skills5. Think when you play6. Do not underestimate your capabilities7. Overcome hesitations8. Play under pressure9. Keep a high level of energy10. Make basketball your passion

• Defensive Possessions: What do you mean? • Qué son las"posesiones defensivas"?

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When you speak about "defensive possessions", what do you refer to ? To the number of possessions in which a player is in an active manner connected by participation defensively ? Or to the total number of possessions that player is on the court for?

To resume the topic about the illegal defense:Illegal defense: A rather nebulous NBA rule that was called irregularly. It's designed to prevent the use of the zone defense, today legal in the NBA, it was more like a 3-second violation for the defense, in which no defender can stay in the lane for more than 3 seconds. If you were on defense and were not aggressively guarding someone, you could not spend more than 3 seconds in the key at a time.

The term Illegal defense has replaced zone defense in NBA usage. The rule now in place, supported by guidelines, defines approved coverage by defensive players and teams. Violations of these rules and guidelines will be noted as Illegal Defense.

a. Illegal defenses which violate the rules and accepted guidelines set forth are not permitted in the NBA .b. When the offensive team is in its backcourt with the ball, no illegal defense violation may occur.

The illegal defense guidelines needed to be eliminated because they have become problematic. They are problematic for our fans, who don't understand the rule. They are problematic for the officials, who admittedly have had difficulty administering the rule. And finally, the teams have used the guidelines in a way that produces isolation basketball. Teams identify areas on the floor that they can use to their advantage in a given offensive matchup and this produces a real sameness of play amongst a lot of the teams.

With isolation basketball, a lot of NBA teams began standing around. There is little player movement, there is little ball movement, and there is a decreasing amount of fast break opportunities. These developments began with the misuse of the illegal defense guidelines and therefore they needed to be eliminated.

By eliminating them, the desired result is to get a game that once again is based on passing, cutting, player movement, and ball movement. A game that hopefully produces fast break opportunities because that is the way our game should be played.

A defensive three-second violation that would prohibit a player on defense from being in the lane for more than three seconds, except when the player is defending an opponent in the lane area: When the illegal defense guidelines were eliminated, the number one concern was that teams would take a bigger player, like a Shaquille O'Neal, Theo Ratliff, Shawn Bradley, or Dikembe Mutombo, and simply put him in the middle of the lane to camp out and prohibit drives to the basket and encourage low-percentage shots. In an effort to help alleviate that concern, the defensive three-seconds violation was recommended. Prohibiting a player from being in the lane for longer than three seconds will hopefully prevent a player from simply camping in the lane for the entire possession.

If you pretend to do an historical revision about the theme: before the 2001-2002 season, the "illegal defense" guidelines were eliminated. A new defensive three-second rule was put into place that prohibited a defensive player from remaining in the lane for more than three consecutive seconds without closely guarding an offensive player.

If you are speaking about the "3 seconds in the key" rule: If you're on defense and aren't aggressively guarding someone, you can't spend more than 3 seconds in the key at a time. This is a relatively new rule in the NBA, and it was made because zone defense is now legal in the NBA, but they wanted to have some restrictions on it (this rule). Before zone defense was legal, it was also "illegal defense".